1 Samuel 24:14

World English Bible (2000)

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

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  • 1 Sam 26:20 : 20 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."
  • 1 Sam 17:43 : 43 The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
  • 2 Sam 9:8 : 8 He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"
  • 2 Sam 16:9 : 9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."
  • 1 Kgs 21:7 : 7 Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."
  • Judg 8:1-3 : 1 The men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you treated us this way, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian?" They rebuked him sharply. 2 He said to them, "What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? 3 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
  • 2 Sam 3:8 : 8 Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman!
  • 2 Sam 6:20 : 20 Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

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  • 1 Sam 26:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18 He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

    19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

    20 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."

  • 1 Sam 24:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

    11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

    12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.

    13 As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.

  • 1 Sam 24:15
    74%

    15 May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand."

  • 1 Sam 24:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18 You have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.

    19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

  • 1 Kgs 21:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19 You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours."'"

    20 Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 16:9
    69%

    9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."

  • 2 Sam 9:8
    68%

    8 He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"

  • Prov 30:31
    68%

    31 the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.

  • Ps 68:23
    68%

    23 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

  • 2 Sam 17:12
    68%

    12 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.

  • 1 Sam 17:43
    68%

    43 The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

  • Job 30:1
    66%

    1 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

  • Ps 22:16
    66%

    16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

  • Ps 18:37
    66%

    37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

  • 2 Sam 22:38
    66%

    38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn again until they were consumed.

  • 1 Sam 25:21
    66%

    21 Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

  • 1 Kgs 21:24
    66%

    24 The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field."

  • 2 Kgs 8:13
    66%

    13 Hazael said, "But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Elisha answered, "Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria."

  • Job 13:25
    66%

    25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

  • 1 Kgs 22:38
    66%

    38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.

  • 1 Sam 23:23
    66%

    23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

  • 1 Sam 30:8
    66%

    8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all."

  • 1 Sam 25:29-30
    2 verses
    66%

    29 Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

    30 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    66%

    9 David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

  • Isa 37:23
    65%

    23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 1:3
    65%

    3 David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel."

  • Job 14:3
    65%

    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Jer 2:25
    65%

    25 "Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'

  • 1 Kgs 20:40
    65%

    40 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it."

  • Lam 4:19
    65%

    19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Jer 48:27
    65%

    27 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

  • Isa 14:19
    65%

    19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

  • 1 Sam 25:34
    65%

    34 For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall."

  • 1 Kgs 18:9-10
    2 verses
    65%

    9 He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

    10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, 'He is not here,' he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.

  • Hab 2:7
    65%

    7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

  • Isa 41:3
    65%

    3 He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

  • Deut 25:18
    65%

    18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.

  • 2 Kgs 19:22
    65%

    22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 16:4
    65%

    4 The dogs will eat Baasha's descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field the birds of the sky will eat."

  • 1 Sam 24:2
    65%

    2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

  • Judg 11:25
    65%

    25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

  • 1 Sam 15:19
    65%

    19 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"